NGOs: the New Face of Charity in India

As we are all aware, India’s rural regions are still lagging behind its urban parts, in terms of development. From finance to education and from health-care to public services, rural India is way behind the India that has sky-touching monuments and sky scrapers. Rural development is one of the most important and significant projects that have been undertaken by the government of India to make life easier in the villages. Many NGOs across the nation have evolved as the main force behind charity in India. Unlike governmental organisation, an NGO mainly depends upon funds from individuals running the organisation.

For an NGO in India, life is not at all easy as its mode of operations is often tested by adverse socio-political factors. Many NGOs across the nation are currently trying to improve the lives of villagers. A major portion of the attention goes into monitoring whether the poor and unemployed people are getting benefits from governmental schemes and policies. From Arunachal to Gujarat and from Kashmir to Kerala, these NGOs are doing all they can to develop villages across India. Many of these organisations are funded by popular actors and movie stars. Most of them donate huge funds for these types of humanitarian causes.

Compared to other progressing nations of its rank, rural development or child education NGO in India in India has been quite slow. Until the beginning of the last decade, villages were nothing but burdens on the whole nation. But now, with good water supply and electricity flowing into the most remote villages too, the dream of a developed nation is not far away. The role of the NGOs in this work is really appreciable as they have made possible what governmental organisations could not. Many international businessmen with golden hearts and lots of bank balance have also come to rescue.

Prominent figures like Bill Gates have donated huge sums of money in developing nations like India. Rural education programmes have made it possible for remote Indian villages to produce doctors and engineers of great calibre. Nowadays, we can see that students from villages and small towns are competing at national and international scale. Talking about the states of India, rural development schemes have been very successful in states of Punjab and Haryana. A large share of the credit must also go to the respective state governments. But, without the presence of NGOs, the dreams of a flourishing rural India would have been left untouched.